A Treasury of Great Poems, English and American: From the Foundations of the English Spirit to the Outstanding Poetry of Our Own Time, with Lives of the Poets and Historical Settings, Volume 1Louis Untermeyer Simon and Schuster, 1955 - 1286 pages 980 works are included in this collection of English and American poetry. Includes interpretive and biographical material. |
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ballad beauty Ben Jonson birds breast breath bright CANTERBURY TALES Chanticleer charm Chaucer child Childe Maurice CHRISTOPHER SMART dance dark dead dear death delight dost doth dream earth English eyes fair father fear fire flowers glory golden grace green hair hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven Keats king kiss lady leaves light live look Lord Lord Randal love's lover Lycidas mind moon mordre morning never night nymph o'er Omar Khayyám passion play pleasure poem poet poetry praise rose round Shakespeare Shelley sigh sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep smile song sonnet soul sound spirit spring stars sweet T. S. Eliot TAMBURLAINE tears tell thee thine things thou art thought tree turned unto verse voice weep Westminster Abbey wife wild wind wings Wordsworth wrote young youth